UNIX: How to tansfer a whole directory with all subdirectories by FTP

That can not be done directly.But workaround is make a TARBALL and then FTP it.

To compress using tar
tar -cvf DestFile.tar SourceFile

To compress using compress

compress SourceFiles
By default all files will be compressd to SourceFiles.z

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